Two floor building needing eight colors
Résumé
Motivated by frequency assignment in office blocks, we study the chromatic number of the adjacency graph of 3-dimensional parallelepiped arrangements. In the case each parallelepiped is within one floor, a direct application of the Four-Colour Theorem yields that the adjacency graph has chromatic number at most 8. We provide an example of such an arrangement needing exactly 8 colours. We also discuss bounds on the chromatic number of the adjacency graph of general arrangements of 3-dimensional parallelepipeds according to geometrical measures of the parallelepipeds (side length, total surface or volume).
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